Workshop "Immersed in the Metaverse: Ethnographies of Virtual Realities" in Brussels

17:00-18:15

Lisa Messeri, Yale University

“Re-encountering the empathy machine: the enduring promises of virtual realities”

18:15-18:45

Coffee/Tea

18:45-

20:00

Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine

“Virtual land: place, interface, and reality” – online

Dinner and drinks in the city

9:00-10:00

Karsten Senkbeil, University of Hildesheim

“Cognitive blending and hybrid presence - concepts to analyze communication in Social Virtual Reality”

10:00-11:00

Jose Hopkins, Leiden University

“Affective Gestures in VR: Reshaping the Human-Technology Interface”

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea

11:30-12:30

Laura Kohonen-Aho & Heidi Spets, University of Oulu

“Members’ perspective on multi-party work meetings in virtual reality”

12:30-13:30

Maria Erofeeva, Université libre de Bruxelles & Nils Klowait, Paderborn University

“On the Consensual Hallucination of Co-temporality”

13:30-15:00

Lunch

15:00-16:00

Fouad Gehad Marei, Lund University

“Islamic Techno-pieties: Systems of Sensory Perception in Virtual Devotion and the Prospect of Muslim Encounters with the Sacred in Virtual Reality”

16:00-17:00

Harshadha Balasubramanian, University College London

“VR Interfaces Beyond Headsets: An Ethnography of Designing Non-visual Access to Virtual Reality Artwork”

Dinner and drinks in the city